Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who knew anything about Soviet housing could have told the Dictator any time in the past several years that such has been the case, but it is characteristic of Joseph Stalin's most drastic decrees that they are usually issued with a tone of just having learned the awful truth. Last week's decree ends one of the last, most treasured private rights of many Soviet citizens, that of being masters in their own homes to the extent that they have had a voice in a collective which was master. Hereafter control passes to the local Soviet...
...modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs. Lichine patterned Francesca da Rimini after an episode in Dante, just as Tchaikovsky used Dante as the basis for the tone poem which is the ballet's music...
Most organ records are bad, and to purists Bach sounds too thick, too soft, when played on an organ built, as most modern organs are, on 19th Century lines. According to Musicraftsman Adler, the clean, transparent tone of the Trio Sonatas derives from the 17th Century-style engineering of the Westminster organ (built by Aeolian-Skinner and equaled in "baroque" tone only by the organs of Wellesley College and the Germanic Museum at Harvard...
Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, and Robert Montgomery star in the major offering at Loew's this week, "The Bride Were Red." Sprinkled with a pleasant whinsy, the picture displays Mr. Tone in a manner better than usual and the film is greatly enhanced by his presence. Miss Crawford is splendid in the first reel or so, after which her part becomes slightly tedious until the later episodes. Mr. Montgomery plays his ordinary rich-wise-guy-mugger role...
...Mitch's" Liberal Government still had two years to serve, but by winning another general election, "Mitch" would be entrenched, not for two years, but for five more, a total of eight. In "Mitch's" calculations, five minus two equaled eight. That "Mitch" correctly judged the political tone of the Province was evident last week. When the polls closed and the results were tabulated, the Hepburn Government was returned with a comfortable majority...